The BEST episodes of MasterChef Australia season 16
Every episode of MasterChef Australia season 16, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of MasterChef Australia season 16!
MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British version of MasterChef. Chef Andy Allen, restaurateur and chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, Poh Ling Yeow and food critic Sofia Levin serve as the show's hosts and judges.
#1 - Final 3 - Service Challenge
Season 16 - Episode 49 - Aired 7/15/2024
Your top three must create an entree, main course and dessert for a hungry crowd of diners and judges. The two contestants with the most exciting overall menu will earn their ticket into the grand finale.
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#2 - Elimination Challenge: Ingredient Auction
Season 16 - Episode 41 - Aired 6/30/2024
Contestants bid against one another, trading time for ingredients in a MasterChef classic. Four contestants compete to cook a dish that helps them avoid elimination and secure their place in the top 6
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#3 - Grand Finale
Season 16 - Episode 50 - Aired 7/16/2024
It's Grand Finale Day, and whichever cook scores the most points across two rounds will lift the trophy aloft, claiming $250,000 in prize money, and the title of MasterChef Australia winner, 2024!?
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#4 - Elimination Challenge: The World's Most Extreme Ingredients
Season 16 - Episode 45 - Aired 7/7/2024
Tonight, the contestants face off with some of the world's most extreme ingredients. These ingredient 'beasts' are the spiciest, sweetest, most sour, most bitter and most pungent on offer.
#5 - Mystery Box: Poh's Everything
Season 16 - Episode 42 - Aired 7/1/2024
Contestants must cook a dish using all nine ingredients in Poh's Everything Mystery Box. The winner will score themselves $5,000 to spend at Harvey Norman.
#6 - Pressure Test: Hugh Allen
Season 16 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/18/2024
Hugh Allen returns to the MasterChef kitchen to set a pressure test merging classic French techniques with flavours of the Australian bush.
#7 - The Judges Become The Cooks!
Season 16 - Episode 48 - Aired 7/14/2024
Andy, Poh and Jean Christophe swap roles, becoming the cooks while the Semi-Finalists become the judges'. The fun doesn't stop there, as our Semi-Finalists must then take on the judges in a relay.
#8 - Immunity Challenge: Family Food Heroes
Season 16 - Episode 44 - Aired 7/3/2024
Emotions run high as the top five open chests revealing treasured photos of their own family food heroes. each cook, inspired by their photos are fighting for their final shot at immunity.
#9 - Elimination Challenge: Plant Based
Season 16 - Episode 29 - Aired 6/9/2024
Tonight's elimination is a plant-based challenge, where contestants create a well-known meat dish using only plant-based ingredients for their chance to secure the Top 10 of MasterChef 2024.
#10 - Pressure Test: Guillaume Brahimi
Season 16 - Episode 43 - Aired 7/2/2024
Chef Guillaume Brahimi has brought a pressure test dish that will push the contestants to their limits. They need to replicate the dish as closely as possible... but they must plate up 5 serves.
#11 - Mystery Box: Golden Ticket
Season 16 - Episode 46 - Aired 7/8/2024
The mystery boxes contain a golden ticket which will fast track the contestant with the top dish into the semi-final, while the other three will have to battle it out in tomorrow's pressure test.
#12 - Pressure Test: Josh Niland
Season 16 - Episode 47 - Aired 7/9/2024
Internationally renowned chef Josh Niland pushes the contestants to their limits with a unique dish from his acclaimed restaurant, St. Peter. They must each recreate his dish as closely as possible.
#13 - Mystery Box: Hong Kong
Season 16 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/23/2024
MasterChef Australia is in Hong Kong! The first challenge is a Hong Kong style Mystery Box. Today the judges are looking for the top three cooks to progress into tomorrow's immunity challenge.
#14 - Service Challenge: Street Food
Season 16 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/25/2024
The cooks are split into three teams, cooking street food in a traditional dai pai dong. They must prepare a two-dish menu, using either a wok, steamer or deep fryer, catering for 120 hungry locals.
#15 - Mystery Box Challenge: Most Ingredients Ever
Season 16 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/17/2024
Tonight's mega Mystery Box features the most ingredients ever, the cooks have just 30 minutes to pull off a winning dish, with the bottom three sending their makers into tomorrow's Pressure Test.
#16 - Pressure Test: Jack In The Box
Season 16 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/7/2024
Judge Jean-Christophe Novelli sets the first Pressure Test of the competition with his 1992 dessert, 'Jack in the Box'.
#17 - Mystery Box Challenge: Wobbly Jelly
Season 16 - Episode 30 - Aired 6/10/2024
Sweet Week has arrived! Adriano Zumbo is here as a guest judge and kicks things off with a wobbly jelly Mystery Box. contestants compete to make a perfect shaky sweet to win precious immunity.
#18 - Elimination Challenge: Curtis Stone
Season 16 - Episode 27 - Aired 6/5/2024
The losing team from the pub challenge must cook along with legendary chef Curtis Stone as he creates his Spice Rubbed Pork, Smoked Beetroot and Hasselback Potatoes.
#19 - Immunity Challenge: Vicky Cheng
Season 16 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/24/2024
After a demonstration from Michelin starred chef Vicky Cheng, three cooks must recreate his dish, from memory alone, the winner claiming immunity from this week's elimination.
#20 - Elimination Challenge: Andy's Mum's Challenge
Season 16 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/5/2024
Andy's mum Maree is in the kitchen to set an elimination challenge inspired by some of the Allen household's classic retro dishes. Contestants must make them MasterChef worthy, or risk going home.
#21 - Immunity Challenge: Combine 2 Nations
Season 16 - Episode 28 - Aired 6/6/2024
Today's challenge is to combine two nations' cuisines into a tasty dish. There is a huge prize on the line: the winning sauce will be made available to buy in Coles stores around the country.
#22 - Meet The Contestants!
Season 16 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/2024
This year, MasterChef Australia ushers in a new era, with international superstars, 22 incredible home-cooks, and friends old and new joining the family. Andy Allen will carry on Jock Zonfrillo’s legacy alongside three new judges: MasterChef Australia alumnus Poh Ling Yeow, food critic and journalist Sofia Levin, and multi–Michelin Star award-winning chef, Jean-Christophe Novelli. MasterChef Australia has built a family of passionate food-lovers and this year’s contestants will be leaving it all on the plate in the pursuit of exceptional food.
#23 - Second Chance!
Season 16 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/29/2024
Eight eliminated contestants return for the chance to cook their way back into the competition.
#24 - Elimination Challenge: One-Inch Cube Taste Test
Season 16 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/2024
In today's two round elimination, our contestants' palettes are challenged with the classic One-Inch cube taste test, which sees six favourites, cook for their spot in the competition
#25 - Immunity Challenge: Champions
Season 16 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/8/2024
In Round 1, one 'champion' per team cooks, with the winner of Round 1 then taking their teammates into Round 2, and out into the garden to cook for Immunity.